Afikaris

09/10/2026

✨ 1-54 London | 15—18 October | Booth E16

We’re happy to return to London for the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair featuring works by Nasreddine Bennacer, Matthew Eguavoen, Jean David Nkot, Eva Obodo, Ozioma Onuzulike, Mouhcine Rahaoui, Géraldine Tobe and Hervé Yamguen.

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For this year’s edition of the fair, we propose à booth where material experimentation becomes a vehicle for exploring spiritual and cultural narratives. Through smoke, coal, clay, bronze and pastel, the artists translate intangible systems of belief into powerful visual forms.

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📍Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom

📷 Mouhcine Rahaoui - Mineur, 2025. 150x150 cm

Mouhcine Rahaoui 1-54 Contemp. African Art Fair

01/10/2026

Salifou Lindou is part of the group exhibition “Africa Legacy” currently presented at Espace Vanderborght in Brussels, through 1 November, 2026.

In “Politiciens 73”, (2024) the white silhouettes emerging against the black canvas mark a turning point in Lindou’s emblematic series, begun in 2020.

More cinematic than ever, the work evokes the language of silent cinema, recalling the expressive gestures of Charlie Chaplin. Nothing can be heard, yet the figures seem to speak. Their gestures suggest exchanges, debates and promises, giving voice to what remains unspoken. Yet beneath this apparent dialogue lies a tension between words and action. The figures speak but remain suspended in the same silent space. Their eloquence becomes almost theatrical, raising the question of what remains when words do not translate into action—and of those who are left waiting beyond the scene.

The duality of human beings is at the heart of the artist’s practice: between strength and weakness, immobility and movement, peace and chaos, promise and action.

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📷 Salifou Lindou - Politiciens 73, 2024
Pastel on canvas
150x200 cm

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📍Africa Legacy
4 September - 1 November, 2026
Rue de l’Ecuyer 50 - 1000 Bruxelles

29/09/2026

AFIKARIS is delighted to announce that Jean David Nkot Jean David Nkot has been selected to participate in 16th edition of Biennale de l’Art contemporain de Dakar, « (Anti)Fragility : Arts of Repair and Counter-Shock Stratégies », curated by Morad Montazami.

Taking place from 19 November to 19 December 2026, the Biennale brings together 54 artists whose practice open spaces for reflection on repair, memory and transformation.

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16th edition of Dakar Biennale
📆 19 November - 19 December, 2026
📍Dakar, Sénégal

26/09/2026

NOW ON VIEW | Hervé Yamguen
Nos géographies intimes | through October 31st

On the occasion of his second solo exhibition at AFIKARIS gallery, Hervé Yamguen presents “Nos géographies intimes” (Our Intimate Geographies), a body of drawings, paintings, bronze sculptures, and wooden masks that extends a central reflection in his work: that of the visible and invisible forces involved in shaping who we are and the way we inhabit the world.
 
The exhibition emerges from a question that is at once intimate and universal: what are we made of? For Hervé Yamguen, a human being can never be reduced to what the eye can perceive. Each of us carries within us landscapes, memories, wounds and dreams. The places we have passed through remain within us, as do family histories, singular experiences and collective upheavals that often silently shape the way we perceive reality. Identity thus appears as a shifting cartography, made up of layers and correspondences, where the intimate resonates with what surrounds it.

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Hervé Yamguen | Nos géographies intimes
📆 5 September — 31 October, 2026
📍7 rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, 75003 Paris

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📷 Exhibition views: ©Hafid Lhachmi

24/09/2026

Ozioma Onuzulike is part of the exhibition “Clay Has Memory: Creative Lineages from Africa” presented at Princeton University Art Museum until July 3, 2027 and curated by Perrin Lathrop. 

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This exhibition examines the ways in which African and African Diasporic artists use clay to sustain creative legacies from Africa. The exhibition brings together works by historical, modern, and contemporary artists who draw on and preserve intergenerational knowledge through their practices. Referencing the long history of ceramics in Africa, these artists harness the potential of craft traditions and the vitality of clay to establish new relationships to place and shared histories.

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A ceramic artist and poet, Onuzulike’s work largely focuses on the historical and sociological roots of the political and socio-economic turmoil in Africa and their debilitating effects on daily living on the continent. He often explores the aesthetic, symbolic and metaphorical nature of clay (his basic material) and the clay-working processes – pounding, crushing, hammering, wedging, grinding, cutting, pinching, punching, perforating, burning, firing – in his making of the multiple units that characterise his mixed-media projects. 

Exhibited artists:
Ozioma Onuzulike
El Anatsui
Magdalene Odundo
Ladi Dosei Kwali
Adebunmi Gbadebo
Theaster Gates
Zizipho Poswa
Leilah Babirye
Kwabena Ampofo-Anti
Etiyé Dimma Poulsen
Demas Nwoko
Jabulile Nala
Madoda Fani
Sana Musasama

19/09/2026

Don’t miss the opportunity to get your very own signed copy of Hervé Yamguen’s first monograph!

Join us today, Saturday, 19 September, from 4–6 PM for an intimate encounter with the artist and a special opportunity to meet Hervé Yamguen in person.

The artist will also do a reading of his latest poem « La fenêtre de mes rêves » (The Windows of my dreams) which opens the book.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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The first monograph devoted to Cameroonian artist Hervé Yamguen offers an intimate portrait of his artistic journey, bringing together the evolution of his practice in recent years and accompanying his new solo exhibition, « Nos géographies intimes » (Our Intimate Geographies).

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📚BOOK SIGNING & POETRY READING
📆 Saturday 19 September | 4—6 PM
📍AFIKARIS Gallery
7 rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, 75003 Paris

18/09/2026

DÉDICACE & LECTURE DE POÉSIE
SAMEDI 19 SEPTEMBRE, 16H-18H

À l’occasion de la publication de la première monographie d’Hervé Yamguen, « Nos géographies intimes », éditée pour accompagner son exposition personnelle éponyme à la galerie AFIKARIS, nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à une rencontre avec l’artiste autour d’une séance de dédicace.

Poète et artiste de performance autant que plasticien, Hervé Yamguen donnera également une lecture de son récent poème, « La fenêtre de mes rêves ».

“C’est à partir de la fenêtre
De mes rêves
Et de ce qui m’arrive
Quand je parcours
Les sentiers de nos souffles en lutte
Que j’accueille et dessine
Des signes et des arbres
Dans le cahier de nos géographies intimes.”

📆 Samedi 19 Septembre | 16h – 18h
📍Galerie AFIKARIS
7 rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, 75003 Paris

Aucune réservation nécessaire

16/09/2026

Merci « Sur le pont des arts » pour ce bel entretien 🙏✨

La galerie AFIKARIS propose la deuxième exposition personnelle de l'artiste camerounais Hervé Yamguen. « Nos géographies intimes » propose un ensemble de dessins, peintures, sculptures en bronze et masques…

11/09/2026

Many thanks to   and Nidhya Paliakara for inviting Hervé Yamguen to discuss his work and his solo exhibition, “Nos géographies intimes” (Our intimate geographies).
On view until October 31st.

Link in bio to watch the full interview.

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Hervé Yamguen | Nos géographies intimes
📆 5 September — 31 October, 2026
📍7 rue Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth, 75003 Paris

08/09/2026

Thank you all for joining us last week at the gallery for the opening of Hervé Yamguen’s second solo exhibition in Paris — “Nos géographies intimes”.

Yamguen presents a body of drawings, paintings, bronze sculptures, and wooden masks that extends a central reflection in his work: that of the visible and invisible forces involved in shaping who we are and the way we inhabit the world.

Hervé Yamguen | Nos géographies intimes
📆 5 September - 31 October, 2026
📍7 rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, 75003 Paris